On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:29:54AM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > On a multi user system, all files are created readable by the group (umask > 022). If we are all in the same group, anybody can read my newly created > files (imagine a local password file for alpine or ssl certs for irc, etc). > It's then left to the user to change umask and/or adjust permissions. Why > not just make it easier for the user?
But sharing is usefull and your suggested change makes it hard. Add setting a proper umask to /etc/skel/.shrc instead? Martin